Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

Actor Joan Plowright won a Tony Award ... The play, second of the Wesker trilogy, was presented by the English stage company and opened at the Royal Court that evening.(Bob Dear / AP) “I ...

At the vanguard of the movement were directors Tony Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, writers Arnold Wesker and Ann Jellicoe, and actors Alan Bates and Rachel Roberts — all of whom coalesced ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

The actor Joan Plowright ... she starred in plays as diverse as Arnold Wesker’s Roots, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara (in the title role) and Eugène ...

Although she was later to become a dame, as well as being Lady Olivier, Joan Plowright originally rose to fame playing the bolshie daughter of working-class farm workers in Arnold Wesker’s play ...

At a rehearsal for Arnold Wesker’s Roots at the Royal Court Credit ... partly his motive was to deny his disdain as an actor-knight for the so-called angry young men; and partly it was to ...

Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words ... In 1959, she played the lead in Roots by east London’s Arnold Wesker at Coventry’s Belgrade and London ...